"A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking."

“I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.”

“The present is the key to the past”

Source : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

“The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.”

“F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things. ...But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them. ...My soul is that of a drummer....It came to where I had to make a decision -- I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.”

“Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.”

“It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do”

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”

“The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.”